Dental CE Course: Evidence-Based Shade Accuracy: Breaking Out of the Pattern for Better Restorative Communication

There is nothing more critical in the realm of esthetic dentistry than obtaining a perfect shade match for your patient restorations. You can have the most precise marginal fit in the world, perfect occlusion and a reliable, biocompatible material that wears even better than natural enamel—but if the shade is off, even just a bit, the patient will notice, and a remake is in the works.
Most, if not all of us, have studied the research and have a strong understanding of what truly matters when determining a patient shade: proper lighting, strong communication with your lab counterpart, and now electronic devices that cannot be fooled by tricks of light and digital photography for precise characterization.
But ask yourself these important questions:
Do I determine shade correctly and communicate all the necessary shade information to my lab for a perfect restoration?
Am I giving my patients the most natural-looking restoration possible?
Are my patients satisfied that their restorations match their bleached teeth?
Do I have 100% confidence in my shade-taking ability in the anterior?
Am I aware that determining the proper value is the most critical element in shade measurement - and that a crown with the correct value can match perfectly even if the chroma and hue are slightly wrong?
You will come to this special presentation with some or all of the answers to these questions - but when you leave, we guarantee that you will have new insight into the importance of shade accuracy and have innovative new techniques that you can easily use to increase the precision of your shades, communicate more clearly with your lab and assure your patients a higher degree of satisfaction.
The presentation will cover:
The historical development of shade determination and how the paradigm of shade-taking has been embedded into our behavior over the last 50 years
Evidence-based protocol for shade accuracy
Hands-on workshop for putting the new techniques into use, including:
Surface texture and color
Translucency
Lighting
Digital photographic communication
Shade assurance